Joshua Holzer is an associate professor of political science at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, where he teaches courses on many different topics, including Chinese politics, European politics, Middle East and North African politics, American foreign policy, and the politics of language.
The United States is the only democracy in the world where a presidential candidate can get the most popular votes and still lose the election. Thanks to the Electoral College, that has happened five times in the country’s history. The most recent examples are from 2000, when Al Gore won the popular vote but George W. Bush won the […]
